DARSANIKA MAHA PRAVACHANA
dead. There we see so many vital
functions, so many other functions
which physics and chemistry alto-
gether ignore inasmuch as these
functions transcend the limitations
of physics and chemistry. The scien-
ces of Biology and Physiology have
advanced and are even now advanc-
ing in a way. The so-called physical
unit of these sciences is the cell—the
unit mass of living matter, whether
rounded off by itself or associated
with others to form a higher unity.
The cell-problem is the special pro-
blem of modern physiology and bio-
logy. What is , protoplasm ? What
is the extraordinary significance in
the colloidal state of the protoplas-
mic system? In what does the cellu-
lar death consist ? These are pro-
blems and mysteries that remain
mysterious to the view of the
material sciences. Neither the doc-
trine of atoms, nor the theory of
electron can solve or account for the
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